Question follow-through · 76799
Mental Illness: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police decision-making in cases involving individuals with serious mental health conditions on the number of prosecutions for assaults aga
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of police decision-making in cases involving individuals with serious mental health conditions on the number of prosecutions for assaults aga
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Home Office has not made such an assessment. The police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of enquiry, as set out in The Code of Practice to The Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.However, the police are operationally independent f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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